"Beads" comes from one of Olga Sedakova's most iconic cycles, "Old Songs (Starye pesni)." Sedakova likes to say that poems usually comes to her in books (or long cycles); each of these books is unique in diction, scope and feel. Unlike, for instance, her cycle "Stanzas in the Manner of Alexander Pope," "Old Songs" privileges the folkloric above the clearly erudite. Written between 1980-81, the poems evoke new expressions of old wisdom, inspired by Sedakova's beloved grandmother.
Martha Kelly on "Beads" |
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"'Is the World Listening?': the Poets Challenging Myanmar's Military"
"As a Rohingya, poetry is especially important because it can also help build bridges of unity in a society where the military has, for decades, attempted to divide and foster hatred between people of different ethnic backgrounds. Most children are exposed to both local and international poetry at a very young age, and even non-professionals often comfortably express themselves through lyrics."
via THE GUARDIAN |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Chantal Neveu (Montreal) on EcoPoetry Now
"And when one takes last enough time, something can happen, an event, a sequence — unexpected. This phenomenon, without precedent, makes possible so much. To persist. Vibrate. Move. Resist. Founder. Transform. Separate. Shine — or not. In the breath of words are sounds, sensations, thoughts, meanings, objects, actions, passions, questions — random, rendered, phrased, fractals, ellipses, textualities, poems." |
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